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Dark Net Market archives, 2011-2015

by: Gwern Branwen

Publication date: 2015-07-12

Usage: CC0 1.0 Universal

Topics: Tor, Bitcoin, drugs, Silk Road, Evolution, Agora, black-markets, dark net markets

Publisher: https://gwern.net

Contributor: Gwern Branwen

Language: English

Dark Net Markets (DNM) are online markets typically hosted as Tor hidden services whose users transact in Bitcoin or other cryptocoins, usually for drugs or other illegal/regulated goods; the most famous DNM was Silk Road 1, which pioneered the business model.

From 2013-2015, I scraped/mirrored on a weekly or daily basis all existing English-language DNMs as part of my research into their usage, lifetimes/characteristics, & legal riskiness; in addition, I made or obtained copies of as many other datasets related to the DNMs as I could.

All this data has been publicly released as a single 52GB archive covering 89 DNMs & 37+ related forums, representing <4,438 mirrors weighing ~1.6TB of raw data.

For detailed documentation on the contents, interpretation, and technical methods behind the scrapes, please see:

https://www.gwern.net/DNM%20archives

Addeddate: 2015-07-12 19:26:06

Identifier: dnmarchives

Location: all Tor black-markets 2011-2015

Rights: CC0, CC-BY-SA

Scanner: Internet Archive Python library 0.8.4

Year: 2015

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Reviewer: Philippe Mignon - - December 20, 2019
Subject: history

This is a complete history of the forums from the time Gwern did this archive. I used it as an example to do a recent scrape after seeing this as an example:

http://archivecrfip2lpi.onion/details/hub.backup.12.03.2019

Big fan of Gwern you do great work!

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